Ciento ochenta grados

The exhibition\nCiento Ochenta Grados is a look at the artists who were protagonists of the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. A period marked by continuous experimentation and the expansion of limits, in which there existed the conviction that the best was yet to come. Years characterized by an overflowing energy that broke barriers, transforming life and daily customs in search of a new world and a Future with a capital \"F.\"\nIt is about revisiting the future that was posed as possible in that era but which never materialized.\n\nAn ideal of a freer, more just, and more beautiful life as a scenario for individual and collective emancipation.\n(Labrador, 2017)\nIsidoro-Valcarcel-Medina-x-Juan-Barte.jpgIsidoro Valcárcel. Juan Barte\n\nIt is not so much about returning to what that period was, but rather to what it could have been. What the British thinker Mark Fisher defined as lost futures. A gaze that has more to do with the present and the non-acceptance of certain aspects of it, than with the time to which it refers.\nIt is not a revival, in the belief that all past times were better, empty of meaning, without any reference to reality, but rather the attunement to the expectations and illusions of an era in which imagining a future was possible.\nCiento Ochenta Grados reminds us that the Future is possible because there was a time when it existed, thus using the past to question what is absent in our days. When the past looks more like the future than the present does, looking back is moving forward.